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Work Reshuffle, GOOD TV, Crushed Ice

May 1, 2026

Hi buds,

It's been a busy month, primarily due to chaos at work. I'm in the process of switching teams to work on a different project. This is both Good and Bad. I loved my team and enjoyed working them. We built the Kagi Translate apps together, which are receiving a lot of love from people. I'm proud of that. There were many things I wanted to do on the Translate project, but I will no longer be directly involved in them. That's the Bad. The Good is that I am excited about what's next. The new project has much higher stakes. It's more central to the mission. I want to craft this project with the same care and attention as Translate. I got this, I got this, I got this, I tell myself everyday.

I'm turning thirty in a few months. This month's issue was originally going to be about my thoughts and feelings about that. Unfortunately, it is 2AM on the 1st of May now and I don't want to half-ass it. So, I have taken the executive decision to push this for a future issue. For this month, I thought I could talk about things that have kept me sane through all the chaos.

  1. The Artemis-II mission (watch this). Rocky from Project Hail Mary. Space is the coolest.
  2. Nuking all my YouTube subscriptions. From 1000+ to 0. Poof. Subscriptions had accumulated over the years. This accumulation combined with enshittification of YouTube's subscriptions UI made browsing the platform so unbearable. Things are much calmer now. I am being extremely strict about what I let into my subscriptions. So far so good.
  3. Nighttime Reading Hour with the girlfriend to rebuild my reading habit.
  4. GOOD TV: About to finish The Crown, watching Euphoria as it airs each week, LOVING Abbott Elementary, and CANNOT stop watching The Pitt. Each one is a banger.
  5. Toast with peanut butter, topped with pomegranate. Trust.
  6. Farza's weekly videos. This dude's energy is so infectious.
  7. Premier League Football. Hype for the World Cup is growing as well. The WC being in North America will make Kick Off times in India an absolute pain though.
  8. Crushed ice from our new refrigerator at home.

What's keeping you sane?

More soon,

R